...the plaintive lament of a peeled and woesmitten people! "By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down. Yea! we wept when we remembered Zion. We hanged our...carried us away captive, required of us a song; and they who wasted us required of us mirth, saying, Sing us one of the songs of Zion. How can we sing the Lord's...

...the plaintive lament of a peeled and woesmitten people! "By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down. Yea! we wept when we remembered Zion. We hanged our...carried us away captive, required of us a song; and they who wasted us required of us mirth, saying, Sing us one of the songs of Zion. How can we sing the Lord's...

...we wept, when we remembered Zion. 2. We hanged our harps upon the willows in the midst thereof. 3 . For there they that carried us away captive required...required of us mirth, saying, Sing us one of the songs of Zion. AQ 4. How shall we sing the Lord 's* song in a strange land? 5. If I forget you, O Jerusalem,...

...the Lord's song in a strange land?" (Ps. 137:4). This because they were held captive in Babylon, and "they that carried us away captive required of us...required of us mirth, saying, Sing us one of the songs of Zion" (v. 3), To the Jews, it was unthinkable to sing while in captivity. But as to their question,...

...into captivity the Chosen People. There in the new, strange country, "by the rivers of Babylon . . . We hanged our harps upon the willows in the midst...that carried us away captive required of us a song. . . . How shall we sing Yahveh's song in a strange land?" (Psalm CXXXTO, 1_4) This proves, too, that...

...old : " By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, yea, we wept, when we remembered Zion. We hung our harps upon the willows in the midst thereof. For...that carried us away captive required of us a song, saying, Sing us one of the songs of Zion ? How shall we sing the Lord's song in a strange land ? "...

...there / I stood and sang and filled the air": alluding to "We hanged our harps upon the willows . . . they that wasted us required of us mirth, saying,...us one of the songs of Zion. How shall we sing the Lord's song in a strange land?" (2-4) "Belshazzar reading right": not the famous words on the wall...

...the pure and stainless souls sing to God, saying : " "By the rivers of Babylon -there we sat down ; yea, we wept, when we remembered Zion. We hanged our harps upon the willows in the midst thereof," clearly giving the name of. harps to their bodies which they hung upon the branches of chastity, fastening...

...official images (Nadler suggests). 105 Psalm 137:1-2, 5-6: "By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, yea, we wept, when we remembered Zion. We hanged our harps upon the willows in the midst thereof. . . If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget her cunning. If I do not remember thee,...

...song in a strange land? Our Waller King Psalm 137:1-4 "By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, yea, we wept, when we remembered Zion. We hanged our harps upon the willows in the midst therefore. For there they that carried us away captive required of us a song; and they that wasted...